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Tangier Slideshow
Tangier
Travel Blogs from Tangier, Morocco
Tanger
Deux jours à Tanger histoire de poser l'equipement de moto et prendre quelques coups de soleil en attendant le ...
MORCCO!!
TODAY WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEET!!! Kyla and I went on a little side trip to AFRICA!! (it sounds cool) we spent a day in the city of Tangir!! It was so much fun and quit an experience! we arrived there after an uneventful ferry ride from Sapin. and ...
the steam train to Tangier
... out and slept. I read for a bit and was entertained by the baby that was in our compartment... We arrived in Tangier 5 hours later and got some big cabs to our hotel - some really steep streets and back alleys. Our hotel was right on ...
Tanger, la boucle est bouclée
Direction Tanger On se trouve d'abord une agence pour le bateau. Nous voulons rejoindre l 'Italie. Les tarifs sont prohibitifs !1100 euros pour 4 avec fourgonnette. Finalement le camion passera en voiture, ce qui nous fera une petite économie. Nous ...
Into Africa
... sketchy taxi to the city and wound through the crowded Medina to my hostel, where I collapsed, extremely overwhelmed and tantilized. Tangier isn't the best part of Morocco at all, but it's a start. It's given me a good intro for what I'm up for as a ...
Boat rides and Boat wrongs
... Adam speaks Arabic (he knows a little more than three words). The train ride was rather uneventful and when we arrived in Tangier we exited the station, got directions to our hotel from a taxi driver and made our way there. We checked into the ...
Ocean views, beers and tapas
... heading there the next day and because we were also advised that we were to stay away from busy tourist places. How busier could Tangier be? Our group leader, Moha, handled the situation really well and gave everyone a sense of calm as we really did ...
Tangier (Tanger) - Morocco
... about an hour and a half. We arrive in Tanger at about 5pm. Upon arrival we are greeted by "Abdul" (one of Morocco's many illegal tour guides). *Before arriving to Morocco, we were warned of the many scams and "rip offs" to ...
Morocco - NEw land, people, customs, language!!
So here I am in Morocco, the ferry (conveniently) runs between Tarifa and Tangier, my meeting point for the tour I am about to start. I think i may have turned up to Tangier with a bit too much confidence. No guidebook, map, accommodation or knowledge ...
Hasta luego Espana, Maroc j'arrive!
My second last night on European soil was spent at a little (and "historical" according to their street signs..) hostal called La Calzada in the old town of Tarifa. Once again Claire and I wanted to treat ourselves before we part ways for the next 30 ...
Rembrandt Hotel, Tangier
... ; Given that there are hardly any Puntos around here, I suppose that the Palio fills that niche in the Fiat range here in Morocco. The "Weekend" would have been sold in France because an estate version of the Punto was never made (to my ...
Tangier - AFRICA!
... min ride was actually more like 50 min, and because it was delayed by 30 minutes we arrived later than expected. Our stay in Tangier was quite uneventful and short. Tangier is known for it's hustlers so we didn't feel like staying here too long. We ...
travelling days
... called Seville, and then Friday another bus to Tarifa, but i wont go into much detail about these places as i head back there after Morocco. Seville was incredibly hot, over 40 degrees, and i shared a taxi to the hostel with 2 other girls that i had met ...
Morocco - days 13 to 15
... we found out that they were just guard dogs and they kept the cats away. A little bit random but hey, thats Morocco! Saturday 16th - Tangier Packing up was pretty easy as we didnt have to worry about tents, and we were firstly driven back to the ...
Day Trip to Morocco
One bit of advice when considering a day trip to Morocco: Go with a guide! DO NOT do what we did and rock up by yourself without a cricket bat to fend of pesky "mosquitos", the self-named independent tour guides, "I am just one mosquito, if you don't ...
Tangier, Morocco
... on the Fast-Ferry. Yummy Falefel and beer and Olives and chilling in the Medina calls. Bought some Converse Chucks before I left Tangier but their pretty shit. I'll probably never wear them. Emma doesn't like it when we almost miss the ferry because we ...
Tangier, Morocco
Woah! Scattering characters from under trucks in the Port of Tangier as we walked through. Old fellas sitting in tea shops drinking mint tea, talking politics and staring at us. Hotels pretty sparse but it'll do. Awesome sandwiches up the street, an a ...
Mo' - Rockin' Day
Went to Morocco for the day with my friends Moritz and Marco, courtesy of Moritz' brother, who has a Moroccan tour business. Got picked up by the tour bus at 7:30 am and rode to Tarifa, where we caught the ferry. We were the youngest people there by ...
"City of Vice"
... stayed in). Paul Bowles ex-pat, novelist, play-wright, composer, and the seeming inspiration for me to make a trip to Morocco; the city of Tangier has a list of resident artists far longer then my arm. We had come to see the Tanjazz festival, after ...
Marrakech to Tangier
... of harsh desert conditions it's most welcome. I decide to make up for all this unexpected luxury living by climbing Jebel Toubkal, Morocco's highest mountain at 4,167 metres. I set off next day, driving up into the High Atlas to a mountain village called ...
ACROSS THE SEA TO AFRICA
Friday Weather: Cool, windy and sunny Journey: Tarifa to Tangier, Morocco - 14kms Kath had dreamed of going to Morocco in 1969 but it did not happen and now 43 years later she gets on a fast ferry to land in Tangier. ...
Spain across trhe Straits to Morocco
... out over the strait it does seem calmer. Let's hope so for we have to retrace our path back to Spain tomorrow. Tangier is a bustling, thriving city of over 1 million, a very mixed population, definitely third world and with many many hawkers and ...
Iberian Tour - day3 Morocco
AFRICA... not quite what I had expected and way too short of a trip to get a feel for Morocco but still touched African soil. There were about 20 of us that ventured across the sea to Tanger. The ferry ride was only about 45 minutes. It's ...
On the Town in Tangier
Today was our day to discover Tangier. We had the close attention of Mohammed, our local tour guide. After the usual town tour to get the feel of the place and see some of the faded buildings where faded multimillionaires and movie stars had ...
Tangier
Bus into town - accompanied by self-appointed guide Abdul Main street Bank to get petrol coupons & dirhams Grand Socco - food market area Medina - old city - bazaar Went to Abdul's family shop - low stools, mint tea - bought a red caftan ...
Spain to Morocco
Drove along Costa del Sol to Algeciras Ferry to Ceuta - past Gibraltar Ceuta - Morocco customs Drove to ...
Another day, another continent - Africa!
... and even the continent of Africa! After checking into our hotel we headed down to the Port for the ferry over to Tangier in Morocco. Filling in the customs paperwork and border control documents took longer than the 35 minute ride over. When we arrived we ...
Edgy
After my last entry I was able to find a nice quiet little tapas bar and just relax before retiring for an early night as new I would be up early for the bus. I awoke at 7am in a somewhat anxious mood. However ignored this and proceeded to have ...
Leaving Morocco
... a bit too self-conscious given the moderate stance of both countries (as well as their history; I didn´t know until recently that Morocco was the first country to officially recognize US sovereignty in the late 18th century). But it´s difficult to ...